Statistics about Farmers Branch housing are misleading unless you split them. The median home here was built in 2001 — but the median home someone actually owns was built in 1967. That 34-year gap changes everything about a roof.
Farmers Branch has the widest split between owner and renter housing age of any city we work. Counting every unit, the median year built is 2001. Counting only owner-occupied homes, it is 1967. The difference is a wave of newer apartment construction sitting alongside a nearly sixty-year-old single-family core, and only 42.5% of the city's 17,260 housing units are single-family detached.
If you own a house in Farmers Branch, the relevant number is 1967 — which makes this the oldest owner-occupied housing stock in the immediate area by about two decades. Plank decking, original ventilation, and layers that were installed before anyone was tracking them are all normal findings here.
June 16, 2019 is the date the city remembers. Within two minutes the National Weather Service logged an 89 mph gust that peeled a significant portion of roof off an apartment complex along Villa Creek and scattered it across a neighborhood to the northeast, then an EF0 tornado near the Johnson's Outpost YMCA on Valley View Lane that tore part of the roof off the building and blew it northwest. In June 2022 another storm removed shingles and some roof decking from homes here and damaged the corner roof of a church.
Farmers Branch charges a flat $150 for a re-roofing permit and doubles the fee — minimum $500 — for work started without one.
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View Roof Maintenance →The median owner-occupied home here dates to 1967 — nearly sixty years old. That means plank decking rather than sheet sheathing on many houses, ventilation that predates modern standards, framing that has moved, and often layers nobody documented. We check for all of it at the estimate so the number we give you is the number you pay, not a starting point.
In two minutes the NWS logged an 89 mph gust that peeled a significant portion of roof off an apartment complex along Villa Creek and scattered it northeast, then an EF0 near the YMCA on Valley View Lane that tore part of that roof off entirely. Wind, not hail, is what has actually taken roofs off buildings in this city.
Farmers Branch charges a flat $150 for a residential re-roofing permit and doubles the permit fee with a $500 minimum for work started without one. Reinspections escalate from $50 to $200. On commercial work the city also refuses lowballed valuations — permit fees must be calculated against the ICC building valuation table, and if actual cost exceeds the stated value by more than 5% you owe the difference within ten days.
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Probably not, and this is the most misleading statistic in the city. The 2001 figure counts every housing unit including a large stock of newer apartments. The median owner-occupied home in Farmers Branch was built in 1967. If you own a single-family house here, plan around a roof on a nearly sixty-year-old structure, not a twenty-five-year-old one.
$150 flat for a residential re-roofing permit, plus a $3 technology fee at issuance. Commercial work is priced on construction value. Reinspections run $50 for the first, then $100, $150 and $200. Work started without a permit costs double the permit fee with a $500 minimum, so it is never worth skipping.
Plank decking on many houses of that era rather than modern sheet sheathing, which changes fastening and sometimes needs an overlay before a current shingle can go on. Possibly layers that should have come off decades ago. Ventilation that was never sized to today's standards — which is the single biggest factor in how long the new roof lasts in Texas heat, and far cheaper to correct while the deck is open.
Wind, on the record. The events that actually removed roofs in Farmers Branch were the June 2019 tornado and 89 mph gust, and the June 2022 storm that removed shingles and decking from homes and damaged a church roof. Hail happens, but it is wind that has done the structural damage in this city.
Yes — with 57% of the housing stock in multifamily and the Valwood industrial corridor on the city's edge, a large share of the roof area in Farmers Branch is low-slope rather than shingle. We run TPO, EPDM, modified bitumen and metal systems and can issue manufacturer no-dollar-limit warranties up to 20 years.
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